I have WinXP, VL6 and VL7 using DHCP through a stand-a-lone Wireless access point. (Also have a Kodak printer at 192.168.1.99.)

From the XP, I can browse to the shares on both of the Linux machines but how do I do that on the Linux machines? PyNeighborhood on VL6 and VL7 requires me to enter the url and did nothing. Smbtree yields

Code:

KODAKAIO\\EKDE1DE521 040a4041;KodakESP5200+7293;W202980;cli_rpc_pipe_open: cli_nt_create failed on pipe \srvsvc to machine EKDE1DE521. Error was ERRSRV - ERRaccess (The requester does not have the necessary access rights within the specified context for the requested function. The context is defined by the TID or the UID.)\\EKDE1DE521\IPC$ FOWLPLAY\\GATEWAY \\GATEWAY\WATCOM \\GATEWAY\C_Prog \\GATEWAY\IPC$ Remote IPC\\GATEWAY\GtwyDocs \\DELL Dell Samba Server\\DELL\IPC$ IPC Service (Compaq Samba Server)\\DELL\Public Public Stuff\\COMPAQ Compaq Samba Server\\COMPAQ\IPC$ IPC Service (Compaq Samba Server)\\COMPAQ\Public Public Stuff

Note that the \\DELL\IPC$ should be (Dell Samba Server) as set in smb.conf! Also I have shared to directories with thunar_shares and they are not listed. WinXP does list them

Is konqueror a part of some other package? It is not listed in gslapt in VL6 or 7.

Getting them mounted is the problem. I don't know their URL until I can find something to list it. I got used to one set of machine codes: 192.168.1.100, ...101, ...102 for Gateway, Dell and Compaq. Today it is ...102, 100, 101 respectively.

Stretched: Thanks for the info on ssh. I will try that on Compaq (VL7) when I dig it out again. On Dell (VL6), I have already set thunar up with thunar_share_plugin from info found in this forum - and it is working. WinXP can see not only the shares defined in Samba, but the ones added by Thunar. Compaq smbtree could only see the ones from Samba.

Nightflier: I've stayed away from kde as I'd heard it took a lot of resources. I will, however, try you suggestion.

BigPaws: I see a correction I need to make in fstab. Thanks. I was beginning to think about assigning a permanent ip to Dell, which I've already done with the Kodak printer. I hesitate to do that with the laptops, Gateway & Compaq, so that they can connect with other Wireless Access Points as I travel.

Thanks to all of you have a Merry Christmas (Happy Hanukkah, or whatever).